Isotopia wrote:The Georgie Boy I have in my mind's eye is more like Buddy.

or Daffyd Thomas the Only Gay in the Village

Buddy and Daffyd, two really funny gay characters.

What makes Buddy and Daffyd funny isn't that they are gay, it is the self centered nature of their view.

Buddy think he's hot shit.

Daffyd is a small town gay that has clung to the identity of being the only gay because it makes him heroic in his own mind. It is this heroism (in his mind) that means he must stay in the small town rather than take risks and move somewhere where his life would probably have more meaning. This heroic act is actually his own fear at work. That's subtle, yet the laughs that come from the audience aren't subtle, they are full on belly laughs.

As somebody else in this thread said, make Georgie-Boy more than a character, make him human. You might start by giving him a respectable name that a real human being would have. (George)

Thanks all. Your observations are appreciated. I know that I asked you all for your input and some of your responses have been most helpful. Please don't take it personally that I may not apply all of them.

I like to draw light from many lamps when it comes to inspiration, yet I don't build my art installations through a democratic process. Like the leaders of many a good theme camp, a fascist dictator gets things done.
I made a speech to the crew at the first work day for Ein Hammer that "We are building a hammer. We are not building an eggbeater. Please save all of your eggbeater-related ideas for your own eggbeater project next year." We all had a chuckle about it, and some of us continued to use the eggbeater reference when the creative train got off its track-- kind of like thread drift here on e-playa.

The Georgie Boy project is going well. Please understand that some of my decisions/selections have already been made, including the name of the project, who Georgie is and how his character is defined. His dialog is what I am working on now, and I think I've collected enough so far to understand the diversity of the "audience".

I can't tell you how fun it is to control the robotic head with MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface). Soon we'll have a little party here with our tech crew to "play" the head and goof around with its capabilities.

Mister Jellyfish Mister wrote:Thanks all. Your observations are appreciated. I know that I asked you all for your input and some of your responses have been most helpful. Please don't take it personally that I may not apply all of them.

I like to draw light from many lamps when it comes to inspiration, yet I don't build my art installations through a democratic process. Like the leaders of many a good theme camp, a fascist dictator gets things done.I made a speech to the crew at the first work day for Ein Hammer that "We are building a hammer. We are not building an eggbeater. Please save all of your eggbeater-related ideas for your own eggbeater project next year." We all had a chuckle about it, and some of us continued to use the eggbeater reference when the creative train got off its track-- kind of like thread drift here on e-playa.

The Georgie Boy project is going well. Please understand that some of my decisions/selections have already been made, including the name of the project, who Georgie is and how his character is defined. His dialog is what I am working on now, and I think I've collected enough so far to understand the diversity of the "audience".

I can't tell you how fun it is to control the robotic head with MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface). Soon we'll have a little party here with our tech crew to "play" the head and goof around with its capabilities.

Mister Jellyfish Mister wrote:I can't tell you how fun it is to control the robotic head with MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface). Soon we'll have a little party here with our tech crew to "play" the head and goof around with its capabilities.-Jellyfish.

This morning, I started filling out the BM grant application. This is always a great exercise for me to condense my "vision" for a project and distill the concepts into their primary components.

In doing so, I came up with this:

"This comedic piece draws inspiration from this year's theme "Rites of Passage" in observation of the mid-life crisis as well as the western obsession with rise to celebrity and subsequent fall from fame-- a guilty, voyeuristic pleasure."

As I explored it further, I was somewhat surprised by this observation:

"Georgie Boy's ridiculous attempts to deny his own homosexuality are magnified by his outrageous behavior and sexual double-entendre, demonstrating his extreme reluctance to claim the final Rite Of Passage that stands in his way and emerge from 'the closet'."

I would like to open this up for discussion here, and am especially hopeful to receive input from the gay community.

Mister Jellyfish Mister wrote:As I explored it further, I was somewhat surprised by this observation:

"Georgie Boy's ridiculous attempts to deny his own homosexuality are magnified by his outrageous behavior and sexual double-entendre, demonstrating his extreme reluctance to claim the final Rite Of Passage that stands in his way and emerge from 'the closet'."

I would like to open this up for discussion here, and am especially hopeful to receive input from the gay community.

Look up old articles on Liberace (who else?) who spent a huge amount of his career denying he was gay. There's some good references in the wikipedia article as well. He denied being gay up to his death.

It's a camping trip in the desert, not the redemption of the fallen world - Cryptofishist

Every time Georgie Boy passes out from too much brandy, the lighting changes and the diorama portrays his dream sequences. Sometimes these are displayed on the old motel television. Other times they are acted out by the comedy/tragedy masks on the wall. They might represent the side of him that is fearful of coming out of the closet (sad mask) and the other side that wants to come "out" (happy mask). Their mouths move as animatronic characters that act out his internal struggle with it as he snoozes below them.

Every time Georgie Boy passes out from too much brandy, the lighting changes and the diorama portrays his dream sequences. Sometimes these are displayed on the old motel television. Other times they are acted out by the comedy/tragedy masks on the wall. They might represent the side of him that is fearful of coming out of the closet (sad mask) and the other side that wants to come "out" (happy mask). Their mouths move as animatronic characters that act out his internal struggle with it as he snoozes below them.

I like the idea of the masks coming to life in the dream sequence. ONE could be his nagging mother who critisizes him & makes him dress in her clothes, etc. ok, mostly thats my childhood, but Im gay so it might be relevant.
btw. I like musicals. Camelot is my favorite.